[SECC] WF4W - NAQP CW Jan 2019
Bill N4iQ
bill.n4iq at charter.net
Mon Jan 14 08:34:00 EST 2019
Good going Richard.
I use a 160M OCF with excellent mutlband performance. No "balun" saturation running 1500 watts at times. I have four OCF antennas in the woods with no feed point 4/1 transformer problems (including saturation). I use Balun Design units.
https://www.balundesigns.com/
They have both OCF 4/1 Voltage baluns for Carolina Windoms and 4/1 Current baluns for standard OCF antennas. They are quality engineered and built. Your 160 OCF will become a new antenna.
Sent from N4iQ Bill Chartier's iPhone 8+
> On Jan 14, 2019, at 7:38 AM, RJ Hubbard <rj.wf4w at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> North American QSO Party, CW - January
> Call: WF4W
> Operator(s): WF4W
> Station: WF4W
>
> Class: Single Op HP
> QTH:
> Operating Time (hrs): 6.21
>
> Summary:
> Band QSOs Mults
> -------------------
> 160: 18 12
> 80: 224 44
> 40: 204 43
> 20: 38 15
> 15:
> 10:
> -------------------
> Total: 484 117 Total Score = 56,628
>
> Club: South East Contest Club
>
> Team: SECC#2
>
> Comments:
>
> IC-7610 + ALS-600 + 6BTV + 160m OCF Dipole
>
> I got almost 6.5 hours! Some day I'll get to operate a full contest period :)
>
> I got a 2+ hour late start. Should have stayed on 20m at the start - lesson
> learned.
>
> I need to scrap the 160m OCF and just put up a 1/2 wave dipole - the balun gets
> saturated if I operate too much and SWR becomes too high.
>
> Nonetheless, I had fun! Had some great runs - best run was 133 Qs on 80m at 105
> Q/Hr. THAT was a fun hour :)
>
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